Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood

When I say 'Dennis Hopper', I bet you think 'actor' -- Rebel without a Cause, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet. But Hopper is much more than just an actor. He is also a director, a painter, a photographer and a central player in the consciousness shift that happened in Hollywood in the late 1960s, a watershed time when 'old Hollywood' made way for 'new Hollywood', when the counter-culture exploded on to the big screen.

Dennis Hopper and the new Hollywood is the name of the big show currently on at ACMI, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.